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Excerpt from: Committee Staff Report On The Disability Insurance Program The Council recognized the desirability of providing benefits to an insured person who becomes totally and permanently disabled and to his dependents. However, a difference existed in the Council on the timing of the introduction of these benefits. Those in favor of immediate introduction argued that permanently disabled persons (except the blind) were the only category of permanent social casualties who receive no insurance or assistance under the Social Security Act, and that no other group was more completely dependent or in a more desperate economic situation.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Committee Staff Report On The Disability Insurance Program | |
| Creator: | House Ways and Means Committee (authors) | |
| Date: | July 1974 | |
| Format: | Government Document | |
| Source: | Social Security Online History Page | |
| Keywords: | Advisory Council On Social Security; Aging; Black Lung; Blind; Children; Death; Diagnoses & Diseases; Economics; Employment; Family; Government; Government Agencies; Insurance; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Mining; New Deal; Pension; Physical Disability; Policy; Politics; Public Health; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Sensory Disability; Social Security; Social Welfare & Communities; U.S. Congress; Vocational Rehabilitation; Workers Compensation | |
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